Synonyms of the word

flop

• v. To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
• v. To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
• v. (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer).
• v. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise…
• v. (poker, transitive) To participate in the flop, thus building one's hand with the first community cards.
• v. (slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
• n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
• n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
• n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
• n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
• adv. Right, squarely, flat-out.
• adv. With a flopping sound.
• n. (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

bust

• n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
• n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
• v. To break something.
• v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
• v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
• v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
• v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
• v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
• v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
• n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
• n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
• n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
• n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
• adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

collapse

• v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
• v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
• v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
• v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
• n. The act of collapsing.
• n. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

descend

• v. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way,…
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
• v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come…
• v. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station;…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters…
• v. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation…
• v. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
• v. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
• v. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.

descent

• n. An instance of descending.
• n. A way down.
• n. A sloping passage or incline.
• n. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
• n. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
• n. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

dud

• n. (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work,…
• n. (informal) A failure of any kind.
• n. A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
• n. (obsolete) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
• n. A loser, an unlucky person.

fail

• v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
• v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
• v. (transitive) To neglect.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
• v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
• v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
• v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
• v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
• v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
• v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
• v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
• v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
• v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
• v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
• n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
• n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
• n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
• n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
• n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
• adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
• n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

failure

• n. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
• n. An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
• n. Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function, breakdown.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

fizzle

• v. To sputter or hiss.
• v. (figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
• n. A spluttering or hissing sound.
• n. Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.

founder

• n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something…
• n. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
• n. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
• n. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
• v. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
• v. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
• v. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
• v. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or…

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

loser

• n. A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
• n. Something of poor quality.
• n. A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
• n. (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
• n. One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.

miscarry

• v. (obsolete) To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
• v. (now rare) To go astray; to do something wrong.
• v. To have a miscarriage; to abort a foetus, usually without intent to do so.
• v. To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.).
• v. Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient.

nonstarter

• n. A project that has no chance of success.
• n. A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered.

right

• adj. (archaic) Straight, not bent.
• adj. Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two…
• adj. Complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct, just, true.
• adj. Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
• adj. Healthy, sane, competent.
• adj. Real; veritable.
• adj. (Australia) All right; not requiring assistance.
• adj. (dated) Most favourable or convenient; fortunate.
• adj. Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north. This arrow points…
• adj. Designed to be placed or worn outward.
• adj. (politics) Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
• adv. On the right side.
• adv. Towards the right side.
• interj. Yes, that is correct; I agree.
• interj. I agree with whatever you say; I have no opinion.
• interj. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
• interj. Used to check agreement at the end of an utterance.
• interj. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
• n. That which complies with justice, law or reason.
• n. A legal or moral entitlement.
• n. The right side or direction.
• n. The right hand.
• n. (politics) The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
• n. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
• v. To correct.
• v. To set upright.
• v. (intransitive) To return to normal upright position.
• v. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
• adv. Exactly, precisely.
• adv. Immediately, directly.
• adv. (Britain, US, dialect) Very, extremely, quite.
• adv. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
• adv. In a correct manner.
• adv. (dated, still used in some titles) To a great extent or degree.

washout

• n. An appliance designed to wash something out.
• n. (biology, medicine) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
• n. (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
• n. A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; a breach in…
• n. (informal) A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
• n. A sporting fixture that could not be completed because of rain.
• n. The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.